OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Natural Hazards Review is 6. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Wind Flow Characteristics of Multivortex Tornadoes	47
Protection or Peril of Following the Crowd in a Pandemic-Concurrent Flood Evacuation	30
Collaborative Relationship Modeling and Analysis of Natech Emergency Response Organizations Based on Stochastic Petri Net	29
Investigation of the Causal Relationships among Different Barrier Categories to Timely Posthurricane Recovery	24
Navigating Federal Disaster Assistance Eligibility and Special Accommodations: The Case of Hurricane Harvey	21
Promoting Spatial Coordination in Flood Buyouts in the United States: Four Strategies and Four Challenges from the Economics of Land Preservation Literature	21
Review of Cultural Competency for Emergency and Crisis Management: Concepts, Theories and Case Studies , edited by Claire Connolly Knox and Brittany “Brie” HauptRoutledg	21
Machine Learning for Predicting Prehurricane Structural Damage	20
Review of Empirical Quantitative Data Use in Lifeline Infrastructure Restoration Modeling	19
The Legacy of Dennis S. Mileti and the Future of Public Alert and Warning Research	18
Probabilistic Regional Liquefaction Hazard and Risk Analysis: A Case Study of Residential Buildings in Alameda, California	18
Reliability Assessment of Road Network to Precipitation Based on Historical Recorded Disruptions	18
Reminders for Learning about Flood Risk Preparedness in Indonesian Poor Villages: Parallel Group In Situ Randomized Controlled Trial	17
Effect of Anti-Price Gouging Law on Postdisaster Recovery Speed: Evidence from Reconstruction in Virginia and Maryland after Hurricane Sandy	15
Comparative Review and Assessment of Various Flood Retrofit Methods for Low-Rise Residential Buildings in Coastal Areas	15
High-Speed GIS-Based Simulation of Storm Surge–Induced Flooding Accounting for Sea Level Rise	15
Developing a Global Method for Normalizing Economic Loss from Natural Disasters	15
Seismic Behavior of Plan and Vertically Irregular Structures: State of Art and Future Challenges	15
Incorporating Flood Loss Estimation into Urban Planning and Development Scenarios	14
Community Perspectives on Simulation and Data Needs for the Study of Natural Hazard Impacts and Recovery	14
Voice for the Voiceless: Amplifying Animal Issues in Disaster Management and Media	14
Detecting and Geolocating City-Scale Soft-Story Buildings by Deep Machine Learning for Urban Seismic Resilience	14
Emergency Restorability of Underground Engineering Environment after Disasters by Utilizing Prefabrication and Assembly Technology	14
Scheduling Inspection and Restoration Action in Postdisaster Critical Lifeline Recovery through Stochastic Optimization with Endogenous Uncertainty	13
Assessment of Soil-Building Resonant Effect for DMDP Area in Bangladesh	13

Impact of Annual Maximum Wind Speed in Mixed Wind Climates on Wind Hazard for Mainland China	13
Effect of Government Intervention and Market Incentives on Farmer Organic Fertilizer Application Behavior and Agricultural Emission Reduction	12
Evolution Characteristics of Postearthquake Emergency Evacuation Demand Based on the Susceptible-Infective and System Dynamics Theories	12
Behavior of Rural Victims and Local Government during Post-Disaster Reconstruction: Agent-Based Simulation	12
Community-Level Seismic Risk and Retrofitting Portfolios in Developing Countries: Cost-Effective Assessment Framework and Application	12
Hurricane Risk of Solar Generation in the United States	12
Seismic Loss Estimation Using Experimental Fragility and Vulnerability Functions: Case Study of Buzau County, Romania	12
Using Social Media for Economic Disaster Evaluation: A Systematic Literature Review and Real Case Application	11
Building Classification Using Random Forest to Develop a Geodatabase for Probabilistic Hazard Information	11
Legitimizing Postcrisis Policy Change: Crisis-Framing Strategies by Public Leaders in China	11
Investigating the Impacts of Built Environment Knowledge on Hurricane Evacuation Intentions in a College Student Sample: A Test of the Power of Information	11
Hurricane Risk Perception among Older Adults: A Case Study of Sarasota County, Florida	10
Earthquake Performance Analysis and Retrofitting of an Existing School Building by Different Methods	10
Climate Resilient Slope Stability Improvement Using Vetiver on a Test Levee	10
Extreme Flood Events in India and Attribution to Climate Change: An Analysis of News Media Coverage from 2013–2019 during Bihar Floods	10
Integrating Place Attachment into Housing Recovery Simulations to Estimate Population Losses	10
Do Perverse Insurance Incentives Encourage Coastal Vulnerability?	10
Impacts of 2020 Beirut Explosion on Port Infrastructure and Nearby Buildings	10
Decisions of Landlords about Their Renters and Rental Units after Disasters	10
Statistical Quantification of Texture Visual Features for Pattern Recognition by Analyzing Pre- and Post-Multispectral Landsat Satellite Imagery	10
Initial Screening of Regional Landslide Hazards in the Hunza River Watershed, Gilgit Baltistan, Pakistan	9
Cost of Safety: Holistic Analysis of Market-Based Solutions for Housing in Haiti	9
Discussion of “New Empirical Model for Breaching of Earth-Rock Dams” by Qiming Zhong, Shengshui Chen, Zhongzhi Fu, and Yibo Shan	9
Impact of Climate Variability on the Feeding Glaciers of Potentially Dangerous Glacial Lakes in the Jhelum Basin of Kashmir Himalaya, India	9
Rapid Perception of Public Opinion in Emergency Events through Social Media	9
Rapid Damage Assessment Following Natural Disasters through Information Integration	9
Movement Morphology and Mechanical Characteristics of Small Landslide Debris Flow	9
Resilience Evaluation Method for Emergency Management of Infrastructure Construction Projects during Extreme Disasters	9
Soil Bioengineering Using Vetiver for Climate-Adaptive Slope Repair: Review	9
Examining Tornado Vulnerability in Kansas with Recent Findings from an EF4 Tornado	8
Comparing Client Values between Business-as-Usual Construction and Postdisaster Reconstruction	8
Efficacy of Damage Data Integration: A Comparative Analysis of Four Major Earthquakes	8
Community Response to Hurricane Threat: Estimates of Warning Diffusion Time Distributions	8
Capacity-Building to Support Safer Housing through Appropriate Hurricane Strap Use	8
Traditional Indigenous Ecological Knowledge to Enhance Community-Based Disaster Resilience: Taiwan Mountain Area	8
Empirical Assessment of Backward Erosion Piping via Blanket Thickness, Lower Mississippi Valley	8
Flood Hazard Analysis Based on Copula Connect Function	8
High on the Hill and Down by the River: The Relationship between Wealth and Flood Risk in the United States, Past and Present	8
Seismic Stability Analysis of Caissons under Earthquake Forces Considering 3D Log-Spiral Failure Surface	8
Discussion of “Revisiting Basic Wind Speed of Metro Cities of India”	8
Hazard Assessment and Modeling of Erosion and Sea Level Rise under Global Climate Change Conditions for Coastal City Management	8
Spatial Flood Forecasting Modeling under Lack of Data Using RS and Optimized Support Vector Machine: A Case Study of the Zahedan Watershed	8
Relationship between Coastal Hazard Countermeasures and Community Resilience in the Tōhoku Region of Japan Following the 2011 Tsunami	8
Growing Peri-Urban Developments Downstream of Farm Dams: Exploring How to Best Manage Increasing Dam Safety and Cumulative Flood Risks	8
Social Media Support Mechanisms for Organizational Adaptation in Governmental Response to Extreme Natural Hazards	8
Detecting Episodes of Mildly Explosive Behavior in the Hurricane Resiliency Index to Examine Community Resilience to Hurricanes	8
Household Displacement and Return in Disasters: A Review	8
Erratum for “Unpacking Tornado Disasters: Illustrating Southeastern US Tornado Mobile and Manufactured Housing Problem Using March 3, 2019 Beauregard-Smith Station, Alabama, Tornado Event” by Stephen	7
Review of Atlas of Forecasts: Modeling and Mapping Desirable Futures by Katy BörnerMIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 02142; 2021; ISBN 9780262045957; 214 pp.; $39.95.	7
Statistical Assessment of Geological and Geomorphological Factors on Building Damages Caused by the February 6, 2023 Earthquakes in the Amanos Region of Türkiye	7

Earthquake Early Warning Riskwork: ShakeAlert’s Operation with Institutionalized Uncertainties	7
Communicating Hazard Location through Text-and-Map in Earthquake Early Warnings: A Mixed Methods Study	7
Climate Adaptation Matrix Concept for Multidisciplinary Community Resilience in a Changing Climate	7
Hurricane Freshwater Flood Risk Assessment Model for Residential Buildings in Southeast US Coastal States Considering Climate Change	7
Determinants of Departure Timing for Hurricane Matthew and Anticipated Consistency in Future Evacuation Departures	7
Governors and Hazard Mitigation Grants Management: Observations of State and Local Officials	7
Field Test and Numerical Analysis on Deformation Response of H-Type Antislide Pile: Case Study of Longjiayan Landslide, China	6
Fiscal Implications of Disasters and the Managed Retreat Thereafter: Evidence from Hurricane Sandy	6
Modeling Temporal Accessibility of an Urban Road Network during an Extreme Pluvial Flood Event	6
Model Test and Numerical Analysis of Cutting Slope with Skip Cut Method	6
Exploring Household Preparedness for Volcanic Eruptions of Kīlauea and Mauna Loa, Hawai‘i	6
Deep Learning for Visual Analytics of the Spread of COVID-19 Infection in Crowded Urban Environments	6
A Social Welfare–Based Infrastructure Resilience Assessment Framework: Toward Equitable Resilience for Infrastructure Development	6
Seismic Stability and Deformation Analysis of a South India Hill Slope by Finite Elements	6
Rising to the Climate Challenge: Better Understanding the Rural Rainstorm Flooding Disaster Risk Management Using Practical Insights from China	6
Dilemma of the Tropics: Changes to Housing Safety Perceptions, Preferences, and Priorities in Multihazard Environments	6
Use of Advanced Microgrids to Support Community Resilience	6
Geohazard Sensitivity Evaluation in Xinning, Hunan, China, Using Random Forest, Artificial Neural Network, and Logistic Regression Algorithms	6
Random Finite-Element Analysis of Slope Considering Strength Anisotropy and Spatial Variability of Soil	6
Changes in Social Capital during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Empirical Evidence from Singapore and Switzerland	6
Hazus Hurricane Wind Model for the US Caribbean Territories: Hazard Modeling and Development of Residential Damage Functions	6
Reviewers	6
Assessing the Impacts of Land Use, Land Cover, and Climate Change on the Hydrological Regime of a Humid Tropical Basin	6